One Marine's View

A Marine is there.....

 A U.S. Marine from Lima company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, finds bullets while digging outside a compound where Marines found a weapon cache in the area of Karez-e-Sayyidi, in Helmand province, April 6, 2010.  REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

Poppy fields in AFG

 

The poppy field crops are coming into harvest about now. In 2007, 93% of the opium in the world market came from Afghanistan. This comes to be about $64 billion with less than a quarter going to farmers, and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords and drug traffickers.  

On the hunt

 

A U.S. Marine from Lima company 3rd Battalion 6th Marines patrols the area of Karez-e-Sayyidi in Helmand province April 4, 2010. REUTERS.

Throughout the area Marines continue to patrol and take the fight to the enemy. Temperatures are getting warm (90’s) but the enemy still fears the Marines.

Righteous

 

Remember what today is about. Regardless of your beliefs, remember. Know that although churches will be filled, and services conducted, your Marines continue to hunt the enemy with a relentless accomplishment. There are no colored eggs or (melted) chocolate bunnies. The air is filled with blowing dust and the sounds of local area are still & quiet, for now.

Squad blows up a roadside bomb

US Marines' anti-explosives squad blows up a roadside bomb in Marjah in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan on March 31. Nearly two months after US Marines led what was billed the biggest offensive against the Taliban in more than eight years of war, troops still come under daily fire from insurgents and bombs are still exploding. (AFP/Mauricio Lima)